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watchinghallmark · 3 months

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Summer Nights 2024 Lineup

The movies seem... interesting.

JUNEBUG

Saturday, August 3 (8 p.m. ET/PT)

Starring: Autumn Reeser (The Wedding Veil), Aaron O’Connell (The Haves and the Have Nots)

When an eight-year-old version of herself starts appearing to her, Juniper (Reeser) begins to realize that her life is not what she had hoped it would be as a child. Young Junebug pushes Juniper to achieve her dreams, to start writing again, and to collaborate with the cute artist Alex (O’Connell) that she recently met to get her life back on track.

🐞 I feel like this could be really cute. Autumn seems very excited about the project so hopefully that's a good sign.

MY DREAMS OF YOU

Saturday, August 10 (8 p.m. ET/PT)

Starring: Skyler Samuels (Aurora Teagarden Mysteries), Kapil Talwalkar (Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist)

Grace (Samuels) has recurring dreams about a handsome stranger named Michael (Talwalkar) due to a mix-up in Dream Central. When they finally meet in person, Grace is shocked to learn he has no idea who she is.

😴 I'm really excited about this casting! Kapil was great in ZEP and it's great to finally see some diversity (Hallmark you're sucking so bad lately with that).It sounds like it could be fun and also a little nutty which I like.

A COSTA RICAN WEDDING

Saturday, August 17 (8 p.m. ET/PT)

Starring: Rhiannon Fish (My Norwegian Holiday), Christopher Russell (Operation Nutcracker)

A clumsy maid of honor (Fish) gets help from her handsome nemesis (Russell) when things go awry at her best friend’s Costa Rican wedding.

🤵👰 The fact that they even describe her as clumsy... oof. Rhiannon can be hit or miss, especially when they have her play an idiot so often. Her paired with Chris is certainly not helping matters either.

THE MAGIC OF LEMON DROPS

Saturday, August 24 (8 p.m. ET/PT)

Starring: Lyndsy Fonseca (Nikita), Ian Harding (Pretty Little Liars)

When Lolly’s (Fonseca) Aunt gives her three magical lemon drops, she gets to experience what her life would have been like if she had made different choices and lived those unfulfilled dreams.

🍋... what? I feel like this is code for some hallucinogenic drugs but ok. Love both actors though so I'm interested.

HEAD OVER HEELS

Saturday, August 31 (8 p.m. ET/PT)

Starring: Rebecca Dalton (Good Witch), Olivier Renaud (Romance with a Twist)

A suburban girl at heart, Addison (Dalton), is off to prove herself in the world of high-end fashion footwear when she lands a life-changing internship at an Upper East Side studio leading up to the star-studded New York Fashion Week. Addison is determined to hold onto her integrity and her family values while struggling to balance it all and forge a path to success and romance, although she may fall head over heels while trying to make her dreams come true.

👠Yawn.

JAZZ RAMSEY: A K-9 MYSTERY

Friday, August 2 (9 p.m. ET/PT)

Starring: Rachel Skarsten (The Royal Nanny), Corey Sevier (Take Me Back for Christmas)

When Jazz Ramsey (Skarsten) and her crime detection dog Zeus stumble upon an old crime scene, the K-9 trainer, her star pup, and ex-boyfriend and lead detective Nick (Sevier) are thrown into the investigation.

🐶 Excited about this!

NELLY KNOWS MYSTERIES (wt)

Friday, August 23 (9 p.m. ET/PT)

Starring: Pascale Hutton (When Calls the Heart), Kavan Smith (When Calls the Heart)

When an unusual handwritten letter arrives at Nelly’s (Hutton) office, she identifies the handwriting as belonging to her childhood friend Dahlia (Sarah Grey, The Secret Lives of College Freshman), claiming her boyfriend Blake (Julian Haig, Dial S for Santa) is being unfaithful. Determined to help, Nelly wants some answers and rushes to Blake’s home only to find his dead body. When Dahlia becomes the prime suspect, the new, handsome Detective in town, Michael Hogan (Smith) must work with Nelly to prove that her childhood friend is not the killer everyone believes her to be.

📫A Pascale and Kavan mystery??? It's all I've ever wanted!

What do you think about these movies? What are you most excited for?

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thethirdromana · 1 year

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Kerr Avon's costumes, rated

The sequel to Romana II's costumes, rated, here by popular* request! (*maybe not very popular.)

Screengrabs from here (copied rather than linked per their FAQs). Invaluable record of what Avon actually wears in which episode from here. I haven't included overcoats, spacesuits, or anything Avon doesn't actively choose to wear, like prison clothes. Which means that rating this monstrosity

is left as an exercise for the reader.

I've also not done every single variation on black jackets with studded panels, even when they are technically different black jackets with studded panels, because otherwise we'd be here all night.

As seen in Space Fall and Cygnus Alpha.

Ugh. It's fine. The heights of bonkersness that Blake's 7 costume design would reach are not even really hinted at here. It's a perfectly reasonable outfit - grey shirt, grey trousers, grey tabard-thing. Add a name badge and Avon could be stocking shelves in a fancy supermarket. I'll allow that it does look comfortable, which will not be a theme of much else on this list. 5/10.

As seen in Time Squad.

I don't hate the brown patchwork thing (though brown is rightly Blake's colour), but what's going on with the larger square over his stomach? I feel like he's about to do some welding or something and it's there to protect his clothes, but it is his clothes. Avon only wore this outfit once, and who can blame him? 2/10.

As seen in The Web, Seek-Locate-Destroy, Mission to Destiny, Duel, Project Avalon, Breakdown, and Deliverance.

I think this one may have suffered from the passage of time. Because I look at it and think, why has Avon chosen to dress like an old-fashioned stereo system? But from the vantage point of 1978, I guess Avon had chosen to dress like a decidedly modern stereo system. Look at those rounded corners, he could be a first-gen iPod. And the matching grey of collar and cuffs is a nice touch. None of this answers the question of why he has buttons across his tits, but there are some things that are not for us to know. 8/10.

As seen in Bounty and Orac.

Oooh, green. Green is a nice change. And if you're watching Blake's 7 and you're enjoying those green sleeves, you'd better make the most of them, because other than one very notable exception, this is the last time that Avon wears an outfit that isn't brown, white, black or shades of grey for the entire rest of the series. The rest of it looks a bit like someone's Star Trek Discovery uniform cosplay got out of hand. 6/10, because green.

As seen in Redemption and Killer.

Obviously, this is a classic. And full marks to Paul Darrow for wearing a costume that was literally bought from a sex shop and making it look like something that anyone might wear to their normal day of fighting oppression and engaging in homoerotic tension. 10/10.

As seen in Shadow, Horizon, Gambit, and Children of Auron.

OK fine I threw away the term "classic" too soon, this is the true classic, the time Avon decided to dress as a thermal blanket and then pair that with thigh-high boots. ICONIC. What I love about this is aside from being batshit, it's actually kind of a nice outfit? I imagine that shiny fabric was absolute hell to work with but the gathering at the shoulders means it hangs surprisingly well.

It also gains at least 5 bonus points for featuring in this, one of my all-time favourite Blake's 7 moments:

I wish I could find it as a gif, but you'll just have to join me in pretending these images are moving instead. And in heaving a nostalgic sigh for the era when men were allowed to have normal bodies on TV. 15/10.

As seen in Shadow.

I've tried to go for just one main outfit per episode, because this is already very long and we're only about halfway through. But I had to make an exception for matching! outfits! And all the better for being an outfit that looks great on all three of them. I only wish that Avon could have had some silver boots like Jenna is wearing, I think it would really have completed the look. 9/10.

As seen in Weapon, Pressure Point, Countdown, and Dawn of the Gods.

In some ways, this costume is quite practical. Avon is wearing something not a million miles from bikers' leathers here, and the quilted part of the chest and back would presumably offer him a bit of protection if he got into a fight. But also, it's the colour and style of a brothel sofa, and there's no way in hell he could wear this and retain the ability to lift his arms above his head.

God, I love this show. 10/10.

As seen in Trial, Hostage, Voice From the Past, The Keeper, Star One, Aftermath, and Powerplay.

I have less to say about this because - and I mean this in full tribute to the Blake's 7 costume designers - it's just a nice jacket! It stays in keeping with the design trends we see throughout the series, with panels of different fabrics, and spacewear shiny silver bits, but ultimately you could wear this on the street today and no one would give you a second look. I quite like that about it. 8/10.

As seen Aftermath. (And the loose black shirt in Voice From the Past is similar too).

Maybe this is just my mid-00s goth-adjacent phase showing through, but I am, and always will be, a sucker for a man in this kind of shirt. 8/10, please don't make me justify this further.

As seen in Volcano and Rumours of Death.

The first of many similar black outfits, where I'm going to be selective or this will get tedious very quickly. I think this is the best of them; after this, the 80s started up in earnest, and Avon's shoulders were never allowed to be their natural width again. 9/10.

As seen in The Harvest of Kairos.

My parents haven't been camping in years, but somewhere in the attic they still have an old tent, which lives in a bag that looks a lot like this outfit. As if I needed any more reasons to dislike The Harvest of Kairos. 1/10.

As seen in Ultraworld.

Avon what are you doing. Brown is not your colour. I think I might headcanon that this is Blake's jacket, because aside from the brownness it also seems to be a fair bit too big for Avon. After a couple of seasons of squeezing him into the lobster outfit and other tight leather things, the costume designers seem to have swerved hard into boxy shapes from this point onwards. I disapprove. Honestly, I was going to skip this one except that I love what Dayna is wearing. Wish Avon could have some of that energy. 2/10.

As seen in Death-Watch.

Let's pause for a second, look to the left, and appreciate that Dayna is wearing another fabulous outfit. Now let's take a deep breath, and look at the utter monstrosity that Avon is wearing. Like a matador crossed with a bumper car. 0/10.

As seen in Rescue, Power, Traitor, Stardrive, Animals, Headhunter, Orbit, Warlord, and Blake.

Avon wears some kind of black jacket with studs for nearly all of season D, but I've picked this as the definitive one. I don't know if there's some kind of clever character development thing going on here with how big this costume is, like Avon is expanding into his leadership role, but weighed down by the responsibility too. It could be deliberate, it could just be what fashion was like in the early 80s.

What I do know is that however meaningful this costuming might be, it's not flattering. 5/10, and Avon finishes the series, sadly, no better dressed than he began it.

#blake's 7 #costuming #kerr avon #paul darrow #i'm game for doing Servalan next though tbh i'd prefer Jenna so i can look at some actual colours

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paigelts05 · 9 days

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Vanessa Sylvia Blake [FNAF, Renegade AU]

https://www.deviantart.com/paigelts05/art/1098936262

Published: Sep 15, 2024

Her sister being freed from William's control and the closure of the megaplex should have signalled a calm in Sylvia's life, but chaos loves company.

Daughter of Joy Diego and Bill Blake, she was born in 1993, and always preferred to be called Sylvia, as that was the name her mom chose for her.

Joy wanted to call her 'Sylvia [middle name of husband's choice] Blake'. Bill, however, messed with the paperwork and had her named Vanessa Sylvia Blake. Joy was not made aware, and due to being blind, had no way of finding this out for herself.

At four years old, her mom and father went through a messy divorce, with her father, Bill Blake, threatening Sylvia, the judge, and his own attorney in order to get his way in the custody hearing. Just before the judgements was passed, Sylvia broke her silence and revealed that she was threatened into lying about her mom, and cried that everyone else was more of a coward for not calling out the obvious contradictions in her statements. This caused the attorney to break down and reveal that he had also been threatened with murder if he didn't get Bill full custody. The judge, whilst having also been threatened, gave custody to Bill anyway even with everything stacked against him.

A few days later, the balcony of Joy Diego's apartment broke whilst she was standing on it, and in true Joy Diego fashion, she's perfectly OK aside from a sprained ankle, but the mainstream papers reported her as dead. Bill used this mainstream report to make Sylvia believe that her mom had died, and that it hadn't been an accident, and by the next day when a fairly well known paranormal investigative journalist released an article correcting the mistakes of the mainstream papers, showing that Joy was alive, Bill had already isolated Sylvia from being able to find any contradictory information, so the article never reached her.

Throughout her childhood, Bill had Sylvia subjected to electroshock 'therapy' due to her 'rebellious' behaviour. Due to this, she was in and out of various hospitals and mental hospitals for a long time, as once the doctors realised that Sylvia didn't have anything wrong with her, making the treatment unnecessary, Bill would take Sylvia and skip town.

She begun to plan her escape after meeting a woman who shared a part of her name, a lady called Vanessa Shelly who was currently recovering from a stab wound in the hospital. After sharing stories about shit fathers, Sylvia felt inspired to escape.

She made a handful of attempts, but she managed to finally run away from home for good at 16 (year 2009) and joined the CPD Paranormal Department as a paranormal responder so she could make rent whilst taking coding classes. Even though Mike tried to deter her, she insisted on joining, so in order to keep her from doing anything remotely more dangerous whilst she was still a kid, he did let her join as a junior paranormal responder, where she'd just be helping keep any kids involved with the cases entertained and happy, so she could play like a kid with other kids whilst feeling useful. Her choice to join the paranormal department was in part due to Joy having put Location C's Mike Schmidt down as Sylvia's legal guardian and Mike running that department, and in part due to the paranormal department effectively being social workers who use the fact that they are technically a police department in order to be the first at a scene and to keep the rest of the police force out of any of their cases.

Whilst she did see her mom quite frequently now as Joy was a good friend of Mike's, it took a while for Sylvia to realise that the blind woman she saw so often was actually her mom because Sylvia couldn't remember her face, in part due to the electroshock 'therapy' that Bill had subjected her to. Sylvia also realised that she had a little sister now.

After getting promoted to a full-time member of the paranormal department, Sylvia realised that Mike had essentially tricked her into being able to get paid for being a kid playing with other kids back in her junior role, and honestly, she was glad for it. Especially after hearing the stories of what Mike had done when he was her age (and his aversion to anything remotely tight around his neck now made sense to her. Sylvia was honestly surprised he could still wear shirts that had collars after all that he had gone through).

Sylvia was especially glad seeing as she completely flubbed her first assignment as she got knocked out whilst investigating an old Faz Ent HQ and woke up in a Faz-infirmary with the tell tale wounds of a Faz Ent style bone marrow extraction.

Several years later, whilst her and her sister were in college, they and a few mutual friends formed a small gaming company called Silver Parasol. They made a bunch of high quality mobile games and small PC titles over the course of a good few years, and whilst they were planning thier next mobile RPG, they received a contract from Faz Ent to work on a VR game. The pay seemed good, and the opportunity to snoop in on Faz Ent's plans were even better. Jeremy B and Cass sorted out the paperwork, and things seemed to be going OK until Faz Ent started trying to treat it like a buyout.

Upon reviewing the contract, it was clear that Faz Ent signed Silver Parasol's contract, so everything that Faz Ent was doing, all the way down to assigning Dale as a 'manager' to the troupe, was a breach of contract. After bringing it up to a solicitor, their solicitor told them to keep gathering evidence of breach of contract, then strike as soon as Faz Ent thinks the 'buy out' is done: after all, the troupe still needed to get that month's paycheque to survive.

In the meantime, Jeremy had survived cutting his face off, Sylvia had wound up with something in her head and had been saved by Cass fragmenting it back into the game. The same thing then got Cass, who got a PI that shared Jeremy's forename to help her drive it into the tapes, but Cass still wound up losing an eye to get the last bit of it out of her head, and then when they all thought they'd won and were making sure it was gone, Ness got posessed, and it didn't let her go.

This incident wound up with Silver Parasol temporarily 'disbanding' and becoming a ska band for a while in order to keep their company name and identity, as their case against Faz Ent was in a deadlock due to Faz Ent's nightmare lawyer's going 'well you're still in business'. Becoming a ska band also let them take a break from game Dev as they couldn't even look at a screen without seeing some hallucination of William's new form. Sylvia then managed to get Cass and Jeremy to become paranormal responders in order to better help Ness deal with her new problem and better share the truth of what happened, as whilst Ness was going into a new job to stay away as she felt as if she was a danger to her friends and sister thanks to a case of William Afton living rent free in her brain, Sylvia felt that she could best help by being on standby to be there for her in case something went wrong.

A few years after that, Faz Ent grabbed her whilst she was on an investigation mission; instead of extracting bone marrow like they had done ten years ago, they seemed to have injected something into her arm. Whilst she was officially out of commission on medical leave, she had noticed these past months that William had been getting more desperate to get Nessie somewhere, and Sylvia figured that this 'somewhere' was the megaplex, so she used the dirt she had on Bill to get a letter of recommendation out of him so that she could more easily snag the role of head of security. Shortly after this, William managed to whisk Ness away to the megaplex.

Sylvia met many colourful characters whilst working at the megaplex, some new and some familiar faces. She trained the night guards to handle the animatronics better than ever, and by the time Faz Ent tried to turn a mass layoff into a mass murderer, Sylvia was ready to give her life to protect her cohort of colleagues. She tackled an exec who was holding the head technician at gunpoint to the ground and wound up suffering some moderate injuries whilst protecting some of her colleagues whilst holding the daycare attendant in the daycare, but she survived it all.

About a week later, an incident known as the breach occured, and Sylvia almost died many times whilst balancing trying to save her sister and trying to keep Gregory safe, but it ultimately wound up being some sigils left by Desmond that allowed Sylvia's progress on the secondary arcades to be combined with Gregory's PQ progress that permitted Gregory to play PQ3 and free Ness.

About a week later, Sylvia took part in the Raid on the megaplex, and whilst she wound up in peril many times, she managed to figure out a 'reverse control theory' that wound up being used in order to get William to activate the burners in his rooms himself, as the pipes and cables had been damaged so they couldn't be activated in the way that Gregory had predicted.

At this point, everything should be wrapping up, with the only thing left to do being carrying out the court ordered demolition of the megaplex, but as soon as Sylvia's on the demolition crew, Faz Ent kidnaps her sister, again. So she headed to the megaplex, wound up getting followed in by Gregory and Freddy, and they were all immediately attacked and knocked out by Cheryl with an army of staffbots. They were able to escape and find Ness, whom Freddy's head had been delivered to, before Cheryl came back. When attempting to get out again, Cheryl came back with Todd C and Charles Ramirez and because the execs had guns, they managed to recapture Sylvia and co, but due to Charles R's plan with Syivia being 'attach Adelaide's control device to Sylvia', and said control device not working, Sylvia was able to bust out again, meet up with Ness, and save Gregory. Ness and Gregory left the megaplex, but Sylvia stayed behind to finish demolitions, but also keep an eye out because she had a hunch that Gregory had been initially kept in the sinkhole by Cheryl to lure someone else in.

Sylvia ended up being right and found that Cassie, Desmond's daughter, had been the target after finally finding her in a crashed elevator. Due to a different exec, tech exec Burrows, bringing the scapegoat mimic AI into a physical endo, and with that endo having hijacked Faz Ent's original plans with Cassie, Cassie and Syivia made an unlikely alliance with William, Adelaide, Bill, and Cheryl to destroy the mimic.

After operation kill mimic was a success, William was a man of his word: Adelaide helped Cassie, Roxy, and Syivia out of the sinkhole, and Cheryl and Bill cooperated in getting out of the megaplex.

When trying to find a way to the nearest hospital, the duo collapsed, and Roxy was able to find Cassie's dad, Desmond, who managed to get the now unconscious Cassie and very delirious Syivia to the hospital. There, Sylvia told Desmond that they'd figured out that the mystery stem cell donner that Desmond's sister used to create Cassie was in fact Sylvia: Sylvia was Bill Blake's 'mystery daughter' that Des and Cassie had been trying to find.

After being discharged from the hospital, Sylvia invited Desmond and Cassie to stay with her, and whilst it was a long move, far away from where Cassie and Desmond once called home, Desmond was glad to bid Hurricane good riddance. Cassie was initially reluctant, but became quick to warm up to the idea of moving after being informed that Gregory was moving in with Ness and Luis (who live near Sylvia's real home), and Tory, Elijah, and Rachel were all relocating to a place not far from where she would be moving to due to the remains of Faz Ent and the Megaplex posing a serious threat to theirs and their parents lives if they stuck around.

Shortly after moving in, Sylvia worked with Ness and Cassie to devise a plan to permanently contain William. A plan whose delivery of the console, game, and headset unfortunately have Desmond a panic attack, but that seemed to be his sister Alistair's plan in order to temporarily possess him in order to relay some important information in the most secure way. Once William had been contained, Sylvia would be the bridge connecting Ness and Cassey's efforts to contain William with the new efforts to hunt down and eliminate the mimic. Not to mention the constant efforts from Mike and Carl to keep Faz Ent from expanding.

Just her luck that Cassie and Desmond are being targeted by William and Faz Ent as well as the mimic. So if she wanted to make sure that Desmond and Cassie would remain safe whilst living with her, she'd have to remain vigilant. For their sakes.

#2024 #art #artwork #fnaf #fnaf au #renegade au #fnaf renegade au #renegade au guards #fnaf fanart #fnaf security guard #fnaf security breach vanessa #fnaf security breach #security breach #fnaf vanessa #five nights at freddy's fanart #five nights at freddy's

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quordleona03 · 2 years

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A Priest in Korea is Moving to the AO3

Many years ago, I was friends with Scarlatti on Livejournal, and I found she had written a whole lot of M*A*S*H fanfiction (twenty stories! That was a whole lot back then!) using the name Iolanthe.

I read all her stories - mostly Hawkeye/Mulcahy: as far as I know, she was the very first person ever to write Hawkeye/Mulcahy slash stories - and I loved them and I started seeing Hawkcahy in the series and one of her stories gave me the idea for the story that eventually grew into Sins and Virtues.

She read the final part of S&V only in first draft - I started sending her sections as soon as I had finished them - because Susan had cancer, and she died, four months before she would have turned 40. Her website, A Priest In Korea (William Christopher's description of M*A*S*H was "Oh, it's about a priest in Korea") fell into the Wayback machine, and last year, thinking of her stories again and looking for them, I found a complete snapshot of her website, and I thought "I could transfer this over to AO3 and let everyone read them: I bet they have a process for that".

They do. Julie was my Virgil as I walked through the Open Doors and now a priest in Korea has moved to AO3: A priest in Korea03. The longest story on site isn't even a Hawkeye/Mulcahy story: it's a Francis Mulcahy & Margaret Houlihan story, Polarity, which uses "a creaky old sci-fi plot device" to put Francis into Margaret's body and Margaret into Francis's -

He grew even more uneasy under the appreciative once-over with which Dickinson now favored him, and a blush warmed his face. When he caught sight of Houlihan's sidelong glare, he wondered how she -- or any other woman, for that matter -- would normally handle that kind of attention.

"Well now, Major, I can see you're a take-charge kind of gal," Dickinson drawled. "Meaning no disrespect. But your C.O. would have my head on a platter if I sent you off without an armed escort. Ain't that how you got into this mess in the first place?"

And the next-longest is also not precisely Hawkeye/Mulcahy, Playing the Game: The night air was pleasant and warm, and I was enjoying the mind-fuzzing effects of several beers, so my pace was unhurried. I'd almost made it to my tent when a man stepped out of the shadows behind the nurses' tent and latched onto my upper arm. "Hold it right there, Mister Vatican," he hissed.

I knew who it was without needing to see his face. No one but Colonel Sam Flagg, alleged CIA operative and all-around loose cannon, had ever addressed me in that fashion. I froze obediently, though my heart was racing and every instinct was telling me to flee for the hills at the earliest opportunity.

"Got a few questions for you," Flagg went on.

(sadly, now and forever unfinished, but rather in the sense of "there should have been more" than "ends on a cliffhanger")

She wrote what is still (as far as I can tell) the only Henry Blake/Trapper story, one of the few Radar/Hawkeye stories, and also Trapper/Mulcahy.

But mostly, she wrote about Francis Mulcahy falling in love with Hawkeye, and Hawkeye's gentle reciprocation.

Between us, we somehow managed to get the tent door open and cross the threshold. At that point, I expected Mulcahy to say goodnight and go pass out in his bunk, which is what I would've done, but instead he had a surprise for me.

As soon as the door closed behind us, he turned in my grasp until we were face to face. Before I had time to fully register what was going on, he'd looped his arms around my neck and was pulling me forward into a kiss.

It was, I think, the softest, sweetest, most tender kiss I've ever received...and one of the most inexplicably erotic.

What can I say? I loved her stories. She inspired me to write Hawkcahy long before that shipname was invented. I never got to meet her. I'd like you all to read her stories, and thanks to Open Doors/AO3, there they are.

They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed. I wept, as I remembered, how often you and I Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long long ago at rest, Still are thy pleasant voices, thy nightingales, awake; For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take.

This is sort of a sad post, but it shouldn't be: Susan was hilarious, and it's been a pleasure and an honour being her archivist.

Thanks, Susan.

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ladydeath-vanserra · 4 months

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Can we set the Silver Threaded Fates gang on the Inner Circle pleaseeee

I believe wholeheartedly that they would whip their asses into line so quickly

ahhhhh okokok so like. I don't wanna make my characters all OP bec I think that's boring and also SJM was boring with how she handled the IC being op but THAT BEING SAID

I don't think a single one of them would like most of the IC. especially bec most of them are either afab or queer.

Blake I feel wouldn't vibe with any of them. MAYBE Nesta. But she would Not At All like Mor. Blake has little patience or respect for catty pickme girls who don't do not call off their loser male friends from harassing women. She'd definitely be unimpressed with Rhysand and Feyres inability to govern the NC and that's not even including their compliance in the brutality of Illyrian or CoN women

but also my god Blake would hate their attitudes with money. She's always been incredibly broke and poor and she'd be disgusted with their five houses especially while the Illyrians live in war camps in the mountains- who all require Cassian bringing BLANKETS?

Alixs whole range of powers were inspired by magneto and daisy johnson. Considering all their weapons are swords and steel bases metals it doesn't much faze her. She might like, or at the very least, remain neutral about Azriel but if Cassian looked at her for too long or harrassed her she'd probably knee him in the balls or snap at him. She has 3 (or 4?) older brothers. she does not have the TIME for these clowns

Serafine is probably the most mouthy of them all and she's immune to most things fire or heat related. She'd probably verbally spar with Cassian, honestly more directly and meaner than Nesta would. She'd probably tell him he obviously wasn't that great as an Illyrian warrior if he was Rhysands nepobaby friend who was only in power bec of him and despite being in a position of power for 500 years no one respected him or actually listened to him where it mattered

but also she'd love the Valkyries

I feel like Vila honestly would toy with Amren in similar ways Ilar does. she doesn't care about if Amren is a good person or not or powerful or not. Vila is a true to word faerie who does not take kindly to liars and finds it a great offense. It's not so much that she's lying, it's how she's lying. It lacks tact and she's rude. Faeries have a strict code of honor and politeness (how you view politeness and how faeries do is likely very different 😂)

That being said she also probably doesn't like Nesta either but at least Nesta doesn't lie 😂. But my faeries also are immune to powers of the mind or those sorts of manipulations so if Rhys is wanting to use his powers on her he's going to have to try the old fashioned way but Vila is also a warrior in her own right (Vila in mythology were often nymphs but they also aided the heroes of myth- similar to valkyries to an extent)

but also side note: she'd ADORE Alis and Lucien

Horne would be incredibly unimpressed with all of them and would clean out the camps and the CoN the moment they saw what was happening. They are first and foremost a Hunter who chases down wicked beings and creatures across realms and time.

Possibly, they consider Rhysand (and Feyre) the worst offender of them all. As he is a coward who is in charge and is *not* protecting anyone. They are also immune to all forms of elemental powers, so fire, ice, etc, magic doesn't harm them, and they have mental defenses they've trained to use. So, while Rhysand could potentially get into their head, he'd have to actually try

Elias Might like acomaf and acowar Cassian. Though he wouldn't like how Cassian goads Nesta sexually. He has a sister ok and a mom. in what world is it okay to harrass a woman like that. also, I think he might have a spoft spot for Elain and Gwyn

Ilar would probably pester all of the IC. They're a lil imp and a lil bit of a shithead, in the best possible way. Imagine this cat-like blue faerie just causing various forms of chaos with someone as impaitent as Feyre or Cassian or Rhysand or Cassian. They'd be partial to the Valkyries or anyone that gave them treats. So big fan of Alis

Bożechna would probably be indifferent to the whole IC but if Rhysand tried any of his mind games with her, she'd stop him in his tracks. She is a seer and does not put up with Anyone trying to mess with her or hers. Like she's already being poisoned by her evil court members she's not going to let Rhysand badger her into something she has no desire to do. She's probably the most like Nesta

#anti inner circle #silver Threaded Fates #ty for the ask!!!

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OC Intro: Blake Aiza

Character Monday is coming a bit late because I was too tired to post yesterday, but we've finally got Blake's bio! I'll edit this post with their picture once I've finally drawn it.

Name: Blake Aiza

Age: 27 years old.

Birthdate: June 1st.

Race / Nationality: Human / Caryan

Gender / Pronouns: Non-binary, they/them.

Physical appearance: They’re of average height, about 175cm tall, and relatively lean. They have brown skin and short, dark hair with equally dark eyes. They have a lot of moles and beauty marks all over their skin. They normally wear a plain day-to-day suit, though they rarely wear the coat since they stay at the store all day.

Personality: Blake is a very quiet and reserved person. They're guarded, and only very few people get to see them past the standoffish front they put on. When they speak they often sound like they're judging you, and, well, most of the time they are. The only thing that betrays they're attempts to come off as uncaring and better-than-thou are their hands, which have to be constantly working on something so they don't lose their mind. They're easy to anger and not very patient, but they're also extremely dedicated and loyal to a fault

Dislikes: Being asked to explain something several times, nosyness and people touching their projects.

Loves: Their partners and their job.

Hobbies and interests: Fashion and design.

Skills and abiltiies: Sewing, some basic magic spells.

Greatest fear: That Ryo and/or Azin will get tired of them.

Enneagram Personality Type: 8. The Challenger

Relationships

Azin: Azin is the calm after the storm. She's the one who's most able to ground them after though moments and the expert at appealing at Blake's rational brain when emotions are heightened. They love her to bits and would kill for her.

Ryo: Ryo is instead the rainbow after the storm. He's the one who most easily gets them to smile and to relax after a tough day. Blake doesn't often understand how he can be always so cheerful, but is grateful for it and would kill anyone who made Ryo lose his smile.

Family: ???

And that's all! Something brief and sweet to get you to know Blake more, let me know what you think!

If you want me to add / remove you from the tag list let me know!

General Tag List: @honeybewrites @leahnardo-da-veggie @fractured-shield

P. Time Tag List: N/A

#writeblr #writers on tumblr #writerblr #writerscommunity #writer community #writing community #writing #my wips #p. time #character mondays #oc intro #ocs #my oc #character introduction

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I'm a new jets fan and I am sooo curious about your post about the locket room being toxic. is it just a vibe or is there actually known fueds between players?

okay i am going to state that the majority of this is hearsay/gossip, but here's a few things i can state fairly confidently

evander kane (noted ex-jet and ex-shark, current oiler) was not liked in the locker room, at least by dustin byfuglien (who i will shortly refer to as "buff," a nickname of his)

buff was an F/D for the jets/thrashers, and an alternate captain for them as well as a perennial all-star. there is an actual photo of him flipping off evander, so this feud is the least alleged thing about the Jetsuation (jets situation). right before the pandemic buff was granted a leave of absence and then a contract termination -- the rumours about this are twofold; one, that his body was breaking down (he was frequently injured so there's almost certainly truth to this) and two, that he was Not Friends with blake wheeler/mark schiefele

mark schiefele was essentially a co-captain, from what i can tell (now that wheeler is a] stripped of the captaincy b] a ranger and c] not long for the nhl, i imagine they might Name him), and is known to be firstly, an evangelical Christian (no hate, but, like, if you don't work in the church and your christianity is more than two lines in your wikipedia page? harshes the vibes) and secondly, kind of an asshole.

blake wheeler was, up until the 2022-23 season, the captain of the jets. they stripped him of the C in the offseason. he was good friends/allies with schiefele. he is apparently at least a democrat though so that's cool. what's uncool is the uh

THE PATRIK LAINE SITUATION

it's 2016. the jets have sucked ass and now have the second overall pick. they pick patrik laine, a winger with a great shot and some serious star potential

laine is a favourite pretty much instantly, scoring 36 goals as an eighteen-year-old rookie and 44 the year after. he's not twenty and arguably one of the best players winnipeg has ever had. quiet, even-keel, fashionable.

there's some contract struggles in there, including a stint where he went to switzerland as an rfa, but he comes back, signs a very short contract, we move.

gets hurt in december, before he comes back from it he's traded to columbus.

a little bit later, rumours come out -- blake wheeler (also a winger) was jealous of his skill, wanted the ice-time and the glory, and mark schiefele, the best centre on the team, wanted to play only with wheeler, not laine. rumours say the two of them bullied him to his face, talked about him behind his back, and the then-coach (paul maurice iirc) just sat there and let it happen (although maurice has stated he regrets not intervening). after this, laine allegedly requests a trade

so yeah

beyond The Patrik Laine Situation there's just rumours of them not liking each other at all; on paper they should be a comfortable away playoffs team, a 3-seed or a comfy wild card, but in practice they're a wild-card team at best -- they were up there in the division for a few months last year, but seriously crashed and burned as soon as january rolls around. there are seemingly yearly soundbites of them going "well, we just don't like each other all that much," and everyone always seems to want out (although that might be winnipeg the city more than winnipeg the team.)

i will leave you with one old alleged anecdote: some reddit guy once went to a party (or a concert? maybe a restaurant or club?) where the jets were, and instead of socializing, talking to each other, they were apparently all just sitting around in silence not really lookin at each other at all

#asks #not tagging the jets that feels mean. the jets could be fixed if we disappeared mark schiefele lbr #theres ALSO rumours of there being a handful of qanon types there who make it miserable for everyone else #but like. hellebuyck wants out. pld wanted out. laine and buff and and and. when does it end. what is it worth #my hockeyblr agendas: stan the bolts 4 rivalry reasons and kill schiefele for the sanity of the rest of us reasons #ALSO ONCE AGAIN stating that this is largely hearsay and speculation #godspeed new jets fan and good fortune

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Anne of the Island - Chapter XXIX

Diana's Wedding

"After all, the only real roses are the pink ones," said Anne, as she tied white ribbon around Diana's bouquet in the westwardlooking gable at Orchard Slope. "They are the flowers of love and faith."

Diana was standing nervously in the middle of the room, arrayed in her bridal white, her black curls frosted over with the film of her wedding veil. Anne had draped that veil, in accordance with the sentimental compact of years before.

"It's all pretty much as I used to imagine it long ago, when I wept over your inevitable marriage and our consequent parting," she laughed. "You are the bride of my dreams, Diana, with the `lovely misty veil'; and I am YOUR bridesmaid. But, alas! I haven't the puffed sleeves -- though these short lace ones are even prettier. Neither is my heart wholly breaking nor do I exactly hate Fred."

"We are not really parting, Anne," protested Diana. "I'm not going far away. We'll love each other just as much as ever. We've always kept that "oath" of friendship we swore long ago, haven't we?"

"Yes. We've kept it faithfully. We've had a beautiful friendship, Diana. We've never marred it by one quarrel or coolness or unkind word; and I hope it will always be so. But things can't be quite the same after this. You'll have other interests. I'll just be on the outside. But `such is life' as Mrs. Rachel says. Mrs. Rachel has given you one of her beloved knitted quilts of the `tobacco stripe' pattern, and she says when I am married she'll give me one, too."

"The mean thing about your getting married is that I won't be able to be your bridesmaid," lamented Diana.

"I'm to be Phil's bridesmaid next June, when she marries Mr. Blake, and then I must stop, for you know the proverb `three times a bridesmaid, never a bride,' " said Anne, peeping through the window over the pink and snow of the blossoming orchard beneath. "Here comes the minister, Diana."

"Oh, Anne," gasped Diana, suddenly turning very pale and beginning to tremble. "Oh, Anne -- I'm so nervous -- I can't go through with it -- Anne, I know I'm going to faint."

"If you do I'll drag you down to the rainwater hogshed and drop you in," said Anne unsympathetically. "Cheer up, dearest. Getting married can't be so very terrible when so many people survive the ceremony. See how cool and composed I am, and take courage."

"Wait till your turn comes, Miss Anne. Oh, Anne, I hear father coming upstairs. Give me my bouquet. Is my veil right? Am I very pale?"

"You look just lovely. Di, darling, kiss me good-bye for the last time. Diana Barry will never kiss me again."

"Diana Wright will, though. There, mother's calling. Come."

Following the simple, old-fashioned way in vogue then, Anne went down to the parlor on Gilbert's arm. They met at the top of the stairs for the first time since they had left Kingsport, for Gilbert had arrived only that day. Gilbert shook hands courteously. He was looking very well, though, as Anne instantly noted, rather thin. He was not pale; there was a flush on his cheek that had burned into it as Anne came along the hall towards him, in her soft, white dress with lilies-of-the-valley in the shining masses of her hair. As they entered the crowded parlor together a little murmur of admiration ran around the room. "What a fine-looking pair they are," whispered the impressible Mrs. Rachel to Marilla.

Fred ambled in alone, with a very red face, and then Diana swept in on her father's arm. She did not faint, and nothing untoward occurred to interrupt the ceremony. Feasting and merry-making followed; then, as the evening waned, Fred and Diana drove away through the moonlight to their new home, and Gilbert walked with Anne to Green Gables.

Something of their old comradeship had returned during the informal mirth of the evening. Oh, it was nice to be walking over that well-known road with Gilbert again!

The night was so very still that one should have been able to hear the whisper of roses in blossom -- the laughter of daisies -- the piping of grasses -- many sweet sounds, all tangled up together. The beauty of moonlight on familiar fields irradiated the world.

"Can't we take a ramble up Lovers' Lane before you go in?" asked Gilbert as they crossed the bridge over the Lake of Shining Waters, in which the moon lay like a great, drowned blossom of gold.

Anne assented readily. Lovers' Lane was a veritable path in a fairyland that night -- a shimmering, mysterious place, full of wizardry in the white-woven enchantment of moonlight. There had been a time when such a walk with Gilbert through Lovers' Lane would have been far too dangerous. But Roy and Christine had made it very safe now. Anne found herself thinking a good deal about Christine as she chatted lightly to Gilbert. She had met her several times before leaving Kingsport, and had been charmingly sweet to her. Christine had also been charmingly sweet. Indeed, they were a most cordial pair. But for all that, their acquaintance had not ripened into friendship. Evidently Christine was not a kindred spirit.

"Are you going to be in Avonlea all summer?" asked Gilbert.

"No. I'm going down east to Valley Road next week. Esther Haythorne wants me to teach for her through July and August. They have a summer term in that school, and Esther isn't feeling well. So I'm going to substitute for her. In one way I don't mind. Do you know, I'm beginning to feel a little bit like a stranger in Avonlea now? It makes me sorry -- but it's true. It's quite appalling to see the number of children who have shot up into big boys and girls -- really young men and women -- these past two years. Half of my pupils are grown up. It makes me feel awfully old to see them in the places you and I and our mates used to fill."

Anne laughed and sighed. She felt very old and mature and wise -- which showed how young she was. She told herself that she longed greatly to go back to those dear merry days when life was seen through a rosy mist of hope and illusion, and possessed an indefinable something that had passed away forever. Where was it now -- the glory and the dream?

"`So wags the world away,' " quoted Gilbert practically, and a trifle absently. Anne wondered if he were thinking of Christine. Oh, Avonlea was going to be so lonely now -- with Diana gone!

#anne of the island #anne of green gables #anne shrley #anne x gilbert #diana barrry

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kakiastro · 2 years

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The Astrology of Blake Lively

As requested, I’ll be breaking down the gorgeous Blake Lively! I’ll break down her hubby Ryan and their composite chart in future post so keep A look out for those, I’ll post them in my pinned post list as well. Ok let’s get started!

I’m using whole sign for chart breakdown

Leo rising with Sun chart ruler which is in Virgo 2h. She’s hard worker, she’s private and would rather the public and media focus on her projects than her even though the media loves her!

Now this is a Virgo woman! She damn has all her planets in Virgo! I’ve never seen anything like this omg! Where do. I even begin 😅

Virgo moon- she’s more logical than emotional, with mercury close to her moon. She’s a great problem solver as well

Sun conj Mars 2h-very attractive in spotlight and she does well in fashion industry, I remember the media went crazy with her dress at the met gala this year haha. She has a very strong presence about her with mars conjunction.

Sun conj Mercury 2h- talk about business smart, 2h rules over investments and financial gain. She’s a a successful business woman, does she have a fashion line? If not, she would do well in it.

Sun conj Venus- ive said this before but people with this aspect are seen as beautiful in public.

Asteroid Aura in Libra 3 conj South Node- she definitely has old school glamour about her, venus ruled 3h(media&public loves her), south node represents pass lives so she had this energy in her last life as well.

Speaking of past life..

She has Asteroid Akashic Pisces conj Nortn Node 8h. Akashic can give us a glimpse of who we were in a pass life, since it’s conj her. NN(destiny&fate) which tells me she’s finishing up something that she didn’t complete last life👀 it’s in Pisces, which gives me high priestess/healer energy, you know what, doesn’t she have a program that helps children be free from sex trafficking?? I remember reading something about that a couple of years ago?! This definitely fits this aspect.

Asteroid Industria 3h- “industry” is at 29° Libra, libra rules over partnerships and marriage, also entertainment industry. 29°, she’s finishing up some things, maybe this will be the last lifetime she’ll be famous or in the spotlight especially since it’s so close to her 4h Scorpio of family.

Fame has been hard for her

Asteroid Varuna conj Chiron 11h- Varuna shows worldwide fame and since his close to her Chiron (wounded healer) in the society house, it was hard for her, I do think it’s gotten better due to Ryan being by her side because she has asteroid Juno(marriage partner) in Aquarius (society sign)

Pluto Scorpio 4h- she’s very private about her personal life, she’s breaking generational traumas and building something lasting for her children with 4h traditional ruler(mars) in Virgo 2h.

Her children will continue her legacy after she’s gone

Sagittarius 5h- 5h ruler(Jupiter) in 9h at 29°(karmic degree) it’s also stated the 29° represents longterm fame. One or if not all her children follow in her footsteps someway. In Aries, their going to be leaders, be the first of something while still honoring their mom. Saturn is here as well which represents longevity and karma(good and bad) conj Uranus oh her kids are def going to be leaders and be apart of important causes.

Juno asteroid Aquarius 7h- her Juno is at 29°, she has a lot of critical degrees here wow. Juno ruler in Sagittarius 5h and Ryan has a Venus Sagittarius omg!! With Saturn here, this is a long term relationship,. Whenever you look at you juno, always check house ruler first then sign. Like if you have Juno Taurus, look at your Venus sign and house first.

Asteroid Lilith Cancer 12h-ughh she probably has creepy men who fantasize about wanting to start a family with her and having kids. However, this is her superpower she probably has strong protective energy towards those who are unfortunate, Lilith energy can be great if used correctly.

Wow! I think this is my longest post so far😅 and I probably could’ve kept going😭

I Hope you all enjoyed this post and please make sure to check the others

#astrology community #astrology #knowledge #love astrology #astro observations #celebritybirthchart #birth chart #celebrity astrology #blake lively

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whoiwanttoday · 1 year

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The Micheal Kors show appears to have been a big one with a ton of celebrities in attendance and a nice little treat was Blake Lively being there. She doesn't show up to much these days and I get it, she has something like 23 children so who possibly has time for fashion shows when you have to make that many school lunches? Anyway, it's nice when she does because she has always had a fabulous sense of fashion and also she's really good looking. It means when she is out and about doing things we get some very interesting looks from her that always catch my eye. This time she wore a very for me look, which is a gold bodysuit that I also saw Candice Swanepoel model before so it's just a thing that is designed to grab my attention. She looked great though and I am pleased to have an excuse to post her twice in like a month. It's like Gossip Girl is back on the air. No, not that one. The other one. For old people. Today I want to fuck Blake Lively.

#Blake Lively #blonde #Actress #whoiwanttofucktoday

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kaydreamman · 27 days

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*breaks down ur door with a chainsaw*

What songs do you heavily associate with your characters?

stop breaking my door down.

Realized a lot of them dont have appearance revealed so why not (though i have not drawn most of them so youll have to bear with picrews for most of them)

this is extremely long and a lot of them so read at your own discretion

Raul Acierno ( Devons brother) - is very much Fish in a Birdcage - Rule #4 Fish in a Birdcage. Most is taken from first picrew but he has the nose in the second one.

Sunya - Emei - That Girl

Nazaire - Static-P - Detective Detective

Octavius, my special unhinged old man mage you guys dont know yet - Adam Jensen - That Man Is a Monster

Iulian - Midnight Divide - Send a Sign AND young friend - feral canadian scaredy cat. The face is more accurate to the picrew but the rest is my drawing

Ankur - good old classic, The Blake Robinson Synthetic Orchestra - An Unhealthy Obsession

Delly - Derivakat - Casino Royale AND Hozier - Talk

Nadia - MARINA - How to be a Heartbreaker AND Britney Manson - FASHION

Bhima (already seen but not to left him out) - Five Finger Death Punch - Wrong Side of Heaven AND Ethan Gander - UNBELIEVABLE

Cynthia (my lovely dumbass buff woman Gangrel primogen) - Alien Stage - Hyunas song ig? (All in), Everything is taken from first picrew except for body build and earrings.

Treat (my wild jester/clown and one of the Princes Hounds/Executioners) - 6arelyhuman - Eat me AND Insane Clown Posse - Rainbows & Stuff

Miika - WAR*HALL - Play with Fire AND The Valla - Anarchist (demo)

he has a spine tattoo that you cant see here but this will do

Devon - DEVO - Puppet Boy AND Tears For Fear

he has a hooked nose but in the first drawing i made for him i didnt give him one argh

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tailing-sun · 6 months

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Shadow High OCs Bio 1: Nyxie Noctis

COLOUR: Pitch black

YEAR: Fourth

GENDER: Genderfluid (female/greygender)

FOCUS: Styling

STYLE: Haute. Dramatic. Powerful.

QUOTE: “Welcome to the dark side.”

BIO: Make way for a legend. Nyxie’s in her fourth year, and after working harder than anyone for three full years at Shadow High and a summer studying abroad in Milan, she’s earned the respect and awe of her classmates. Nobody can deny her talent or her charisma, and though they project the image of a high-and-mighty brooding loner, in truth they’re a natural leader. Easy to talk to but hard to impress, this year she’s TAing for two styling classes, on the lookout for promising underclassmen who embody the ideals of Shadow High and are willing to take their effort and their skills to the next level. Nyxie’s built to last through pressure, setbacks, and all kinds of drama, but as soon as they graduate they’re looking forward to taking a gap year to relax in their home city of Vancouver before focusing on turning their brand into a fashion empire.

OTHER:

-She’s 18 years old.

-Nyxie mostly uses “she” pronouns but is experimenting with “they” pronouns as well.

-Her family is relatively well-to-do and business/legal-oriented, with most of her relatives being lawyers, doctors, and accountants. This is probably why Nyxie sets such high standards for themself and their impact on the fashion world.

-She’s from Vancouver, British Columbia.

-The name of her fashion game is simplistic elegance, including clothes, jewelry, and makeup. Their sleek silhouettes are often offset by shiny silver belts, necklaces and earrings that are just as standout yet minimalist.

-She likes her nails teardrop-shaped and either all black or all silver (shiny enough to see her face in.)

-Moonlights as a runway and cosmetics model.

-Often feels lonely because most students consider her “too cool” to approach on an equal basis.

-Has been friends with Blake since their freshman year (and has followed him on social even before they met at Shadow High) and even now they feel like he’s the only one they can open up to. The feeling is very much mutual.

-Other students refer to Nyxie and Blake as a “platonic power couple”.

-Considers herself Jett Dawson’s rival, even though Jett doesn’t know her personally.

#character bio #character bios #bio #digital art #oc #shadow high #shadow high oc #oc bio

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peligin-eyed · 1 year

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Name: Ambrose Blake

Pronouns: He/him

Addressed as: Sir

Born: 2 October, 1869 in Yorkshire, England

Ambition: Heart's Desire (completed)

Profession: Correspondent (Epistolant)

Skills: Persuasive, Watchful, Artisan of the Red Science

Quirks: Hedonist, Subtle, Ruthless

Allies: Bohemians, Society, certain Masters

Romantic Entanglements: In an open marriage with a Promethean Rogue (Gay)

Bio

A______ B____ was born in a small Yorkshire village, the third of five children (three sisters, one younger brother). His father was a gardener for the local noble estate and his mother did some work as a seamstress. He had trouble fitting in as a child. He always seemed to be too much- too eager to learn, too sensitive, too concerned with his appearance, too "soft." He spent a lot of time reading and daydreaming to escape the bullying he faced. From a young age, he felt that he was meant for something bigger than his little village could provide. Once he was old enough, he left home and set out to try to make something of himself.

He went to Paris, where he found himself feeling at home for the first time among the bohemian artistic set. He also racked up considerable drinking and gambling debts, had some regrettable sexual encounters with people he couldn’t easily avoid afterward, and got in trouble with the law on multiple occasions. On one of those occasions, he managed to talk his way into being deported back to England just to get away from his problems, and he ended up in New Newgate.

London seemed like the perfect place to try to start fresh. Ambrose adopted a new name, a new accent, and kept any details of his past as vague as possible. He stopped feigning even a hint of interest in women and immediately started delving deep into all the weirdness and debauchery the Neath had to offer. He heard about a card game where you could gamble your soul to win your greatest desire and though that sounded like a smashing good time. He was a bit of a detective in his early London days, before learning about the Correspondence and becoming fascinated by it. He had some missteps as he was trying to establish himself, made friends and enemies in equal numbers, but eventually he found his footing as a promising writer and blossoming socialite.

Over time, he grew into a Correspondent and a regular fixture at parties both respectable and scandalous. Nowadays, he is celebrated as Poet-Laureate of the Neath, a renowned scholar of the Correspondence, and a somewhat controversial figure among certain academic circles. One seems to run into him constantly when out and about in London. He's not known for taking a solid stance on much of anything apart from fashion, art, and wine.

There are rumors that he is immortal, that he has performed unholy scientific experiments on himself and others, that he has had numerous licentious affairs with non-humans, that he holds some sway over the Masters and London itself. Are any of the rumors true? Well, he certainly won't confirm or deny, he'll tell you with a sly smile.

#oc: the esoteric aesthete

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Social class of M*A*S*H surgeons I got the idea from reading this interesting post by @majorbaby about Frank Burns. My reference was 8.3 Social Class in the United States

Charles Emerson Winchester III is upper-class his family has money and social position. He would certainly like you to think that his family is upper-upper class all the way back, and perhaps that's even true.

"Members of the upper-upper class have “old” money that has been in their families for generations; some boast of their ancestors coming over on the Mayflower. They belong to exclusive clubs and live in exclusive neighborhoods; have their names in the Social Register; send their children to expensive private schools; serve on the boards of museums, corporations, and major charities; and exert much influence on the political process and other areas of life from behind the scenes." B. J. Hunnicutt is upper-middle class. He went to Stanford: he was past of an exclusive fraternity, which Frank Burns comments on. He and Peg may be having cash-flow problems, but they're on the lines of "how do we pay for the second mortgage" not "how do we pay the rent". "People in the upper-middle class typically have college and, very often, graduate or professional degrees; live in the suburbs or in fairly expensive urban areas; and are bankers, lawyers, engineers, corporate managers, and financial advisers, among other occupations."

We don't get enough clues from the six appearances of Oliver Harmon Jones what social class he was supposed to be before institutional racism cut him from the series. Henry Blake - insufficient clues about background, but certainly comfortably upper-middle class when drafted. Frank Burns wants to be upper class and is origins are probably lower-middle class - he wasn't allowed into the exclusive fraternity that BJ Hunnicutt joined. "Members of the lower-upper class have “new” money acquired through hard work, lucky investments, and/or athletic prowess. In many ways their lives are similar to those of their old-money counterparts, but they do not enjoy the prestige that old money brings." John McIntyre and Hawkeye Pierce both look like scholarship students to me - McIntyre's accent places him on the South side of Boston, and Pierce's father, though a doctor, probably acquired that training the old-fashioned way, not by eight years of medical school. I place both families as lower-middle class. "The lower-middle class has household incomes from about $50,000 to $74,999, amounting to about 18% of all families. People in this income bracket typically work in white-collar jobs as nurses, teachers, and the like. Many have college degrees, usually from the less prestigious colleges, but many also have 2-year degrees or only a high school degree. They live somewhat comfortable lives but can hardly afford to go on expensive vacations or buy expensive cars and can send their children to expensive colleges only if they receive significant financial aid." Sherman Potter was a farm kid. He joined the cavalry in WWI because he could ride, and though I don't know they've ever mentioned Potter's rank in WWI, I get the impression he was an enlisted man, not an officer. He went to college to train as a surgeon as a military officer. His son-in-law is a salesman. His family may have been land rich before the Great Depression, and lost that land in bank foreclosures. That would put him in working-class origins - if so, the only other officer at the 4077th who had a working-class background is Father Mulcahy, which may explain why they get on so well.

#mash analysis #class analysis #charles emerson winchester #frank burns #sherman potter #hawkeye pierce #trapper john mcintyre #oliver harmon jones #bj hunnicutt #mashposting #henry blake

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katsigian · 2 years

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🖊🖊🖊 for valen, nikita and hart pls 👀👍

Thank you so much! From this ask game

VALEN KINLAW

-- Starting fairly early on in his life, Valen's been taking part in bare-knuckle fights. Sometimes it's because he needs to (either for work or because he's threatened and needs to defend himself) or because he's just itching for a fight. Physicality has always been a good output for Valen when things are overwhelming, be it because he's had a really rough week or past issues got triggered again. He's gotten better at going to the gym at his work facility, but he still prefers a real target. So he visits underground fighting rings on occasion. Tournament style usually, bare-knuckle, register at the dingy front "reception". Crowds of less-than-savoury patrons and gangers betting on the fights. Valen won't use his first name, usually just his alias.

Picture a grungy, dirty building with shuttered windows and low stadium seating, bright lights centered on the ring and red ones everywhere else. Blood still on the mat. Chain-link walls rather than ring ropes, that type of vibe. And Valen in nothing but pants and boots ready to get some of that pent-up aggression and stress out. He does very well, having been both trained informally and formally. Plus the years of experience beginning at 16 means he's got a vicious, dirty fighting style. Typically ending fights in some brutal fashion. He doesn't go without getting wounded, usually leaving with at least a few cuts and bruises that'll heal within a few days. If he leaves covered in blood, 8 times out of 10 it isn't his.

-- He's an excellent swimmer and used to spend plenty of time at the ocean. Valen loves beaches and water, being outside in the sun hence why he's so tan and his freckles are so strong. He still has a small collection of sea glass, interesting rocks, and shells that he used to randomly pick up. They're kept in a glass jar on his desk and he can remember each beach they came from.

-- He knows constellations and stars and planets by heart. He can tilt his head up and tell you all about the planets, the brightest stars, can point out the constellations and name all of the ones he can see. It's mostly because of how many nights he's spent awake. He first started learning them during his service in 2068-2071 where he'd be on patrol at night. It was one of these times that he found an old almanac in an abandoned nomad camp, and learned about the sky from it every night for almost four months while on a posting. As such, he's also excellent at navigating according to the stars.

HART THORNE

Okay so I haven't formally introduced him yet but I do have plenty of information on him. He's the oldest friend of Valen.

-- They met when they were fourteen and latched onto each other. Both of them having fathers that were heavy handed and mean, they could bond over shared sympathy and interests. Both Hart and Valen loved surfing and they'd try slip away on the weekends to go to the ocean. Hart's dad wasn't as terrible as Callen, Valen's dad, but Hart was still traumatized, having been through much of the same indoctrination as Valen was.

-- Hart nowadays is Valen's tattoo artist. Valen draws the tattoos, Hart puts them onto Valen. Usually, they'll chat late into the night, drinking in Hart's studio in Vista del Rey. He's also Valen's corner guy for cage fights and sparring partner. Hart doesn't have the skill that Valen does in hand to hand combat, but he can hold his own. There's been a few times where they accidentally hurt each other, a punch not pulled fast enough, and they'll sit there laughing even though one of them has a bleeding nose.

NIKITA BLAKE

-- She does mercenary work, but focuses mainly on women who need aid (all kinds of women, not solely biological). Nikita is a good talker and an even better listener, naturally sympathetic and caring. She does well at taking the work that needs a softer hand.

-- Nikita isn't the brawling type, even if she's shifted. Far more cunning and sly than anything else, and is good at talking people down. She'll avoid confrontation if necessary.

-- Her connections help her out with her jobs immensely. Noel, her brother, is Trauma Team and she can call him if a client is injured and needs transport. Her husband is Max-Tac and he has experience with conflict/combat for when things get dicey. Valen, her cousin, is for when she needs something done that neither Max-Tac or Trauma should be involved in.

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